Colbert Super PAC Brilliance
Today Stephen Colbert’s Super PAC released one of it’s first Ads in the presidential campaign taking aim at the whole enchilada using Mitt Romney as a foil. It’s brilliant…
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I think the brilliance is in the courage to actually use the mechanism of a Super PAC to comment about the very mindset that allowed for super PACs to exist in the first place, namely the idea that corporations are people. By making it absurd, he exposes the absurdity of it.
There’s also something else afoot here, which is the courage be relevant. On NPR’s Fresh Air recently, TV critic David Bianculli pointed out The Daily Show usually has the best “take” on the news. And I agree. The degree to which major corporate entertainment news is a few steps removed from even basic critical thinking, we need humor to put our public discourse through a little reality check. To my mind, that is what Colbert is providing at the moment.
Take your humor seriously, folks.